High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS J. M. Guffey (ID 1279) was a commercial tanker chartered by the U.S. Navy during World War I. However, because her master declined to remain with the ship during wartime, the ship was taken over by the U.S. Navy. She operated out of Scotland until war’s end, and then was returned to the United States, decommissioned, and was returned to her owner.